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Looks like something worth charging for and that my business would use. I like to be charged because:

* I like to see that services I use have a viable business model (e.g. standard SaaS tiered pricing signup is a good signal to me).

* I don't want to be using a service that is flakey (usual problem is they become uneconomic to run, although your current problem counts too!).

* I want somebody with an economic incentive to help me if I do have a problem.

* Trust is important if I am installing something - I want your business to have strong visible incentives to be trustworthy.

Perhaps find a friend (go halves or something) that can set up exactly the same thing using a payment model and a different domain that looks more business friendly?

If paying, I would definitely like a more anonymous looking domain for use when diagnosing problems with our corporate clients.

Above said, I will definitely by trying it (suitably sandboxed!).




If you want a paid version, you have a lot of options: http://john-sheehan.com/blog/a-survey-of-the-localhost-proxy...


Ngrok has paid features that let you use your own domain name, though when used with https it will give an ssl warning but this is optional.


Thanks - I will look into it after having a go to see if it does actually help me.

Re SSL: However my #1 issue at present (a single client where the content is removed from XHR requests) happens on https.

There are cheaper ways I could do the equivalent of ngrok, but ngrok looks like it will do exactly what I need to diagnose particular problems. If ngrok saves me a day a year of work and resolves problems more quickly for clients, that is worth paying low 2 digit amounts per month.




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